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Can anyone confirm what the position is in relation to a buyer defaulting on the sale of a property in Turkey.
I understood that if the buyer defaulted they lost there deposit and part would go to the estate agent and part to the buyer for compensation.
Last year my sales agent confirmed they had a buyer for my property and took a 5% deposit which was held by them. This was in September 2013.
I was expecting the sale and completion to go through by the end of October, the agent kept saying the tapu had not come through, but could be anytime. As there are not many flights into Dalaman in the winter from the UK
I gave Power of Attorney to the Agents to handle the sale.
In January 2014 I was advised by the agents that tapu had arrived and they notified the buyers, who said they were no longer proceeding due to financial problems.
The agents held on to the deposit and said when 'they found another buyer they would refund half of the deposit' But if it was sold via another avenue they would only refund me my power of Attorney fees.
I have challenged them constantly to no avail, and I have now sold through another agent.
Can it be right that the other agent has kept the full deposit (surely this is fraud) and is there a precedent in Turkish Law in relation to deposits and buyers defaulting.
It has taken me almost another year to find a buyer for the property after it was taken off the market and resulted in addtional costs for insurance, maintenance and fees, surely there should be some legal protection for the seller in this instance.
I would like to point out that the agent did not put a clause in the sale contract regarding the forfeit of a deposit should the buyer default.

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